Bolo Baeta Recipe

serves:

8
- 10

Skill:

easy

Cost:

cheap

Prep:

10 min

Cooking:

40 min

You can find all sorts of cake in Brazil and they are eaten at all times of day – even for breakfast. Usually they are baked in ring or tube cake moulds and this gives them a distinctive appearance. Interestingly they are nearly always made in a blender or food processor, making it very quick and easy to create a delicious cake for the family. This recipe for Bolo Baeta or milk cake is a typical Brazilian recipe and is simple to make with just a few ingredients. The recipe uses a tin of condensed milk as its base which gives it a lovely creamy flavour. This is a simple cake with an interesting moist, dense texture quite unlike our own sponge cakes, and is really delicious and moreish. You can easily jazz it up by adding all sorts of flavours – orange, lemon, chocolate chips, nuts etc. This one has lime zest added to the basic mixture and just a dusting of icing sugar to finish.

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You can use the empty condensed milk can as a measure for the milk, mixing in any remaining residues. The cake keeps very well and is even more delicious after a few days when the lime flavour has time to develop.